BAG LADY Definition & Meaning

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bag lady

[ bag ley-dee ]

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noun

Slang: Offensive. an unsheltered or homeless woman who lives and sleeps on city streets or in public places, often keeping all her belongings with her in shopping bags.
bagwoman.

bag lady

noun

a woman who is homeless and wanders city streets with all her possessions in shopping bags Also called (in full)shopping bag lady

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Origin of bag lady¹

First recorded in 1960–65

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Ms. Komar said: “That she was seen as some kind of bag lady, that her art gets overshadowed by those stories, makes us angry.”

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The play is filled with outlandish characters — most conspicuously, Trudy, the bag lady, who has lost her mind and in the process has made contact with space aliens curious about higher consciousness on Earth.

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A bag lady wearing a complicated mask dug into her luggage and produced filthy masks to offer those who had joyfully unmasked themselves.

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I explained that before “homeless person,” a lot of people used the terms “bag lady” or “bum.”

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“I am not the bag lady in ‘Home Alone 2.'”

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